Quantum Scalar i6000 User manual

User’s Guide
Scalar i6000
6-66879-07 Rev A

ii Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide
Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide, 6-66879-07 Rev A, May 2013, Product of USA.
Quantum Corporation provides this publication “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or
implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose. Quantum Corporation may revise this publication from time to time without notice.
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
© 2013 Quantum Corporation. All rights reserved.
Your right to copy this manual is limited by copyright law. Making copies or adaptations without prior
written authorization of Quantum Corporation is prohibited by law and constitutes a punishable
violation of the law.
TRADEMARK STATEMENT
Quantum, the Quantum logo, DLT, DLTtape, the DLTtape logo, SuperLoader, Scalar, StorNext, and DXi are
registered trademarks of Quantum Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Preserving the World's Most Important Data. Yours., Backup. Recovery. Archive. It’s What We Do., the
DLT logo, DLTSage, Dynamic Powerdown, FastSense, FlexLink, GoVault, MediaShield, Optyon, Pocket-
sized. Well-armored, SDLT, SiteCare, SmartVerify, StorageCare, Super DLTtape, and Vision are trademarks
of Quantum.
LTO and Ultrium are trademarks of HP, IBM, and Quantum in the U.S. and other countries. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective companies.
Specifications are subject to change without notice.

Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide iii
Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Description 1
Front View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Hardware Configuration Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Dual Robotics Configurations and Parking Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Control Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Expansion Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Library Management Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
I/O Management Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Import/Export Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Cartridge Magazines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Tape Drives and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Mixed Media Support and Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Support for WORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Contents
iv Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide
Operator Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Power System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Library Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 2 Troubleshooting Your Library 37
How Does the Library Report Issues?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Working With Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Interpreting LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Working With Command History Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Accessing Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Chapter 3 Configuring Your Library 117
Running the Setup Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Enabling Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Working With Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Configuring Control Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Setting Up the Network Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Managing Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Setting Up Policies for the Physical Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Specifying the Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Configuring E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Setting Up E-mail Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Setting Up Media Security Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Configuring Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Configuring Drive SCSI ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Configuring Fibre Channel Drive Speed, Topology, and Loop ID . . . . 197
Configuring Fibre Channel I/O Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Generating the Library Configuration Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Contents
Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide v
Configuring Drive Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Registering SNMP Traps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Configuring Library Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Using LDAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Configuring Screen Saver Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Working With Data Path Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
About the Configuration Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Setting Aisle Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Configuring a Webcam For Your Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Working with Towers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Chapter 4 Active Vault 251
About Active Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Configuring Active Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Chapter 5 Advanced Reporting 259
Media Usage Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Viewing Cross-Partition Media Moves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Chapter 6 Automated Media Pool 265
Requirements for Automated Media Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Configuring Automated Media Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Using Automated Media Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Chapter 7 Capacity on Demand 277
Chapter 8 Encryption Key Management 279

Contents
vi Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide
Encryption Key Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
KMIP-compliant Encryption Key Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
FIPS-Certified Encryption Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Setting up EKM on the Scalar i6000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Using EKM Path Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Monitoring EKM Server Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Using Q-EKM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Using SKM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Chapter 9 Extended Data Lifecycle Management 319
About EDLM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Configuring EDLM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Running Manual EDLM Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Viewing EDLM Test Sessions and Report Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Diagnosing a Suspect EDLM Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Chapter 10 Storage Networking 349
Using the Storage Networking Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Licensing Drives for Storage Networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Configuring Control Path Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Configuring Data Path Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Configuring Host Access to Storage Networking Drives and Partitions . .
362
Chapter 11 Configuring Access to StorNext 397
Chapter 12 Partition Utilization Reporting 405

Contents
Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide vii
Chapter 13 Running Your Library 411
Logging On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Connecting to Multiple Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Operator Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Library Management Console (LMC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Understanding Location Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Viewing the Library (Physical or Partition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Changing the Library’s State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Working With Local User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Shutting Down/Rebooting the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Powering Off the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
Powering On the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
Locking/Unlocking the I/E Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
When Robotics Are Not Ready. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Using the Library Access Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Chapter 14 Using the Command Line Interface 473
Logging on to the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Command Line Interface (CLI) Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Chapter 15 Maintaining Your Library 491
Monitoring the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
Maintenance Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Using Sift Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Retrieving MIBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Maintaining Air Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
Performing Robot and Power Rail Health Checks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Contents
viii Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide
Chapter 16 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes 663
Handling Cartridges Properly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Write-Protecting Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
Barcode Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666
Installing Barcode Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Using Cleaning Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Managing and Moving Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Quantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide ix
Preface
This guide contains information and instructions necessary for the
normal operation and management of the Scalar®i6000 library. This
guide is intended for system administrators, operators, or anyone
interested in learning about or using the Scalar i6000 library after its
initial installation and configuration. Be aware that you must have
administrator privileges to use many of the features that this guide
describes.
Caution: Be sure to read all operating instructions in this manual
and in the
System, Safety, and Regulatory Information
Guide before operating this product.
Product Safety Statements
This product is designed for data storage and retrieval using magnetic
tape. Any other application is not considered the intended use.
Quantum will not be held liable for damage arising from unauthorized
use of the product. The user assumes all risk in this aspect.
This unit is engineered and manufactured to meet all safety and
regulatory requirements. Be aware that improper use may result in

Preface
xQuantum Scalar i6000 User’s Guide
bodily injury, damage to the equipment, or interference with other
equipment.
Caution: Be sure to read all operating instructions in this manual
and in the
System, Safety, and Regulatory Information
Guide before operating this product.
WARNING: Before powering on or using this equipment, read THE
System, Safety, and Regulatory Information Guide . Keep
the Guide for future reference.
Note: When drive sled positions are empty, drive cover plates must be
installed and in place at all times to prevent access into the
empty drive sled Positions.
Mechanical Locks The access and service doors can only be opened with a key. The key
should be kept by an authorized person at your company. Access to the
interior of the library is both a data-integrity and safety issue.
Power Button on the
Library’s Indicator Panel
Switching off the Power button on the indicator panel, located on the
front of the library, removes power from the electronics, which causes
the picker to stop immediately. This button also removes power from
the drives.
WARNING: This power button functions as a power interrupt only. To
completely remove all power before servicing or in an
emergency, turn off the circuit breaker on the power
distribution unit, and then disconnect the power cord
from the electrical source.
Mercury Statement Projectors, LCD displays, and some multifunction printers may
use lamp(s) that contain a small amount of mercury for
energy-efficient lighting purposes. Mercury lamps in these
products are labeled accordingly. Please manage the lamp